Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster (1835–1913) was a Scottish novelist, essayist and author, noted also as a collector of folklore, especially in the Highland county of Sutherland.

[1] Dempster's first published work was an essay entitled "The Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer", which appeared in the Edinburgh Review in July 1861.

[2] She became involved in controversy over the role and importance of the 17th-century Dorothy Osborne, after reviewing Edward Abbott Parry's edition of her correspondence for the same journal in 1888.

[2] According to a modern critic, Dempster's novels "use a variety of settings to treat potentially serious subjects in a superficial way.

Others were Iseulte (1875), Blue Roses (1877), Within Sound of the Sea (1879), Marjorie's Husband (1888) Ninette: an Idyll of Provence (1888), The Dance of the Hours (1893) and The Year Book of the Holy Souls (1901).